Journal 89 covers the period from July to November 1971. Margaret Walker writes about how Sigismund was angry and brandishes a shotgun at her, James, and Margaret. She has made the decision to leave her two sons at the home for the year she is to be gone but Sigis comes back from New Orleans, and gets arrested at house on Lynch Street near a police shootout. Margaret Walker also writes about how the Jackson Police raided the home of Black Nationalist group the RNA, as opposed to simply serving the warrants. In this journal, contains Margaret Walker trip to Norway for her Fulbright fellowship and how it has been postponed indefinitely. She goes further to write Sigismund released pending a grand jury hearing in October, but arrested on another charge a few weeks later.